Improvement in fenoe-pozts



SJNLENNON. Fence-Post.

No. 202,119. Patented April 9,1818.

qudmm mus" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAYBES N. LENNON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCE-POSTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 202,179, dated April 9, 1878; n pliostion filed Novemhsr 17, 1876.

To all whom it may comma.-

.Be it known that I. Snows IT. LENNON, of Ohioago, in the countv of Cool: and State of Illinois, have invents a new and useful Improvement in Fence-Posts and I hereby declare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference beiu had to the accompanying drawings, of whlc Figure 1 is a side view of the fence-post socket or sugport before being driven into the ground; 1g. 2. a side view of the center post before being driven through the socket or sleeve of the support, and Fig. 3 a side view of the post complete when riven into the nod.

The object of my invention is to overcome diffloulties in the manufacture of the post for which Letters Patent of the United States No. 184,635 were granted to me November 21, 1876,211d also to make s. stronger post with less mete-l.

To this end my invention consists in employin afence-post socket or support with'the se f-spreading legs or roots described in my former patent, into or through which socket or snflport may be driven either a wooden or mete center post, which thus also penetrates the ground. forming a. control 10 or support.

In the manufacture of the son et-tube the metal may he so rolled as to place more metal at the parts where greater strength and weight are neoesse and less at the other parts. This cannot e so easily done where as single plate of metal is used for the whole'post.

In the drawings, A represents the socket or support, composed of metal and made of tubular form, with the legs or roots 0 b a formed from the body of the same, as described in 122% patent hereinbefore referred to.

n Fig.8 the support Ais shown driven into the ground, (the roots or legs having been spread by the driving,) and the post or shatt B driven through the support, and also into the ground.

I do not claim the legs or roots of the postsupport with the points turned ou twurd, whereby they spread themselves when driven, having claimed the some in mypanent hereinhetore cited.

I am aware that post-supports have been madeto rest upon the groun and also to be anchored tothe ground; also, with one root or leg to be driven or set into the ground.

What I oleim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The metallic fence-post support A, having spreading legs or roots a. b o, in combination with a wood or metal post. B, driven through or into the some, substantially as desoribed.

2. A fence-post formed of the metallic support A, having spreading legs or roots o b o, and the center ost of. metal or wood B driven into or throng the same, substantially as shown in Fig. 3.

SAYRES N. LENNON.

Witnesses:

Amo K. Srrnns, EZRA Hnmst. 

